The Genius in the Lamp: I Wrote This 6 Years Ago. I Was Wrong.

The genius in the lamp wasn’t waiting for a master. It was waiting for me to break the glass.

On ‎‎Saturday, ‎August ‎10, ‎2019, ‏‎8:44:17 PM, I sat down, pulled out my phone, and recorded a thought.

It wasn’t for a business or an article. It was a raw idea that demanded to be spoken.

I thought I understood it then. I didn’t.

I’m sharing it because this recording is the true start of IMPACTIMUM: a story of having the key but lacking the courage to use it.

It’s the story of how I trapped my own genius in the lamp for six years.

The War for Your Mind (The 2019 Revelation)

Here is the truth I recorded six years ago, now refined:

The world profits from our distraction. Every app, headline, and notification fights for your attention. They won’t stop.

The moment you open your eyes, the battle begins. Do you reach for your phone? Do you surrender your first thoughts to the chaos of the world? Or do you seize control?

Make no mistake: what you do within the first five minutes of your day determines the next nineteen hours. You either subject your mind to your will, or you subject your will to the whims of the world.

I understood this in 2019. I knew that our minds are like fertile soil, and our thoughts are seeds. I knew that what we plant in the morning, we harvest all day long.

I spoke about Marisa Peer, Dr. Myles Munroe, and Zig Ziglar. Les Brown and Tony Robbins. The knowledge was there.

But knowledge is useless until you act.

Your Mind Is Soil. Your Thoughts Are Seeds.

Let me give you the framework I discovered six years ago—the one I failed to act on.

Think of your mind as soil. Once you plant a seed, it just needs water, food, and light. You can nurture bad or good habits—the soil doesn’t care. It grows whatever you give it.

Every thought you think sends a blueprint to your mind, and your mind works to make it a reality. This is not a metaphor.

This is neuroscience. Marisa Peer, world-renowned hypnotherapist, has proven this over decades of work: your mind obeys the instructions you give it.

Tell your brain you’re not getting out of bed this morning, and it will obey. Tell your brain you can’t work out, and it will obey. Tell your brain you’re not capable of building a business, and it will obey.

Your mind is the world’s most potent processing unit, given to us by our Creator. And it is listening to every word you say.

Zig Ziglar once said, “Sow an action, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap a destiny.”

This is the cycle that builds or destroys lives.

The First Five Minutes: Where Destiny Is Decided

When you open your eyes in the morning, what is the first thing that grabs your attention?

Do you reach for your phone? Your tablet? Do you start scrolling through news, social media, and emails, feeding your mind with the chaos of the world before you’ve even stood up?

Or do you take control?

Here’s what I learned in 2019 but didn’t practice until 2025:

The first five minutes of your day are the most critical minutes of your life. What you give yourself to in those moments will determine the trajectory of the next 19 hours.

You want to condition the direction of your thoughts. You want to let your mind be subjected to your will because if you allow it to do whatever it wants, your day is in for a rough start.

Do you meditate? Do you read? Do you exercise? Do you sit in silence and ask yourself: “What will I create today?”

This is survival, not productivity. This is about choosing a purpose-driven life over mere reaction.

The Genius in the Lamp

The most critical part of that 2019 recording was a story—a metaphor that has haunted me for six years.

We all know the story of the genie in the lamp. A mystical creature, trapped, waiting for a master to release it and grant three wishes.

But the story is a lie.

You are not the one who finds the lamp. You are the one inside it.

And you are not a genie waiting for a master. You are a genius in the lamp waiting for yourself.

You are the one who locked yourself inside, hoping someone else would come along and give you permission to be free. You put yourself in a prison of your own making—a prison of procrastination, of fear, of waiting for the “right time.”

How did you get in there? Through the most powerful force in the universe: your own imagination. The same mind that can conceive of empires and symphonies can also convince you that you are small, that you are not ready, that you must wait.

“You are the sum total of choices and decisions you make every day.”

-Dr. Myles Munroe

For six years, I was the genius trapped in the lamp. I had the idea, the framework, the voice. But I waited. For what? I couldn’t say. Permission? Perfection? A sign from the heavens?

It never came.

The Lion and the Gazelle: You Must Run

There is a story told about two animals in the African kingdom. Every morning, when the sun rises, something extraordinary happens.

The lion wakes up. He knows that if he does not run faster than the slowest gazelle, he will starve to death. His title as king of the jungle becomes irrelevant if he cannot eat.

The gazelle wakes up. She knows that if she does not run faster than the fastest lion, she will be devoured.

The moral of the story is not about who is stronger. It is about this:

When the sun rises, you must run.

It doesn’t matter if you are the lion or the gazelle. It doesn’t matter if you are chasing your dreams or running from your fears. You must move.

What are you hungry for? What do you need to do to move from a mediocre existence to a purpose-driven life?

We all have to run at some point. We may need to escape toxic relationships, dead-end jobs, and destructive habits, anything that contradicts our integrity and character.

Everything gets hungry when the sun rises. You either become the meal or live to run again.

-Nicholas Lynch

It’s a jungle out there.

What Changed: The Pain of Inaction

I was wrong about everything in 2019. I thought the enemy was a distraction. I thought the enemy was the world outside.

I was wrong.

The greatest enemy is not the noise of the world. It is the silence of your own trapped potential.

The pain of not building, of not creating, of not letting the genius out of the lamp, that pain eventually became greater than the fear of failure.

I realized that every day I spent “waiting” was a day I was actively choosing to betray my own purpose. The business I wanted to start wasn’t just an idea; it was a responsibility. It was the work I was put on this earth to do.

And I was failing to do it.

“Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re absolutely right.”

-Henry Ford

I had convinced myself I couldn’t. Not yet. Not until everything was perfect. Not until I had more time, more money, more experience.

But perfection is the enemy of progress. And waiting is the enemy of destiny.

That was my turning point: I stopped waiting for someone to unlock my genius and decided to take action.

The Birth of IMPACTIMUM

IMPACTIMUM is not a new business. It is the inevitable result of a six-year-old idea that refused to die.

It is built on ideas from 2019, which I first recorded on my phone:

1. Win the war for your mind.

The first five minutes of your day are the battleground. Take control, or surrender your life to distraction.

2. You must be a creator, not a consumer.

Stop processing tasks. Start creating outcomes. Your mind was designed for mastery, not maintenance.

3. You must unleash the genius you have trapped inside.

You aren’t waiting for permission. You are the only one who can free yourself. Break the lamp.

This platform exists to help you do what I failed to do for six years: to act on your own best ideas. To stop waiting for permission and to start building the life, the business, the impact you were meant to create.

Your Turn: Break the Lamp

I am not a guru. I am just a man who finally got tired of living inside a lamp.

My only question to you is this:

What genius have you trapped inside your own lamp? It’s time to let it out—start now.

You were designed with a specific purpose, plan, vision, and task that only you can execute. Your DNA is your blueprint. You are engineered as an exclusive model that can and will operate under any circumstances to fulfill the purpose for which you were born.

Don’t hesitate. Take action now; move boldly toward your purpose and let nothing hold you back.

Mel Robbins, author of The 5 Second Rule, observed it like this: “If you don’t learn how to untangle your feelings from your actions, you will never unlock your potential.”

Stop waiting. Start acting. Share your intention today and commit to your next step. Your moment is now.

The genius is inside you now. The only step left is to break the lamp.

This is my story. If it resonates with you, you’re in the right place. Welcome to IMPACTIMUM.

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